SmartImageView is a drop-in replacement for Android’s standard ImageView which additionally allows images to be loaded from URLs or the user’s contact address book. Images are cached to memory and to disk for super fast loading.

Features

Drop-in replacement for ImageView

Load images from a URL

Load images from the phone’s contact address book

Asynchronous loading of images, loading happens outside the UI thread

Images are cached to memory and to disk for super fast loading

SmartImage class is easily extendable to load from other sources

Download the latest .jar file from github and place it in your Android app’s libs/ folder.